1956-03-12 Life Magazine Contents

1956/03/12 — Cover photograph featuring Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited to Hank Walker

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

“After weeks of … devoutly prayerful consideration,” the drama of the President’s yes

Children for 17 Lands pay Homage to Pope Pius XII on his 80th Birthday

A Look at the World’s Week

Europe’s Bad Winter is Cruel to the End

No Sign of Peace for Autherine

A Mystery Monster Causes SOme Ripples in Henley-on-Thames

EDITORIALS:

Three Imports of Ike’s Decision

“Go slow, now”

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

The Sands of the Desert Turn Gold – Well-Heeled Visitors in the Southwest Enrich Scottsdale, Arizona, as native styles are embellished – Photographed in color for LIFE by Nina Leen

A Memo to the Girls – LIFE Shows leap-year husband-seekers some eligible specimens of U.S. bacherlorhood and places where they abound, such as Caspar, Wyoming

ARTICLE:

Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief – Arthur Barry, great second-story man, looks back on a $10 million life in crime by Robert Wallace

MILITARY AFFAIRS:

Set to strike in the shadows: the U.S. Army trains a special corps of many-skilled men to operate behind enemy lines

SCIENCE:
Tiny plastic lens is promising new solution for eye cataracts

MODERN LIVING:

In colorful models Cleveland shows how a city fights decay

NATURE:

Horace the housebroken hare enjoys his Dublin house

SPORTS:

The world’s biggest serve: smashing triumphs over Trabert prove Pancho Gonzalez is best in tennis

ART:

English sculptor uses menbers of his congregation as models for a church facade

THEATER:

Eugene O’Neill ‘s last tragedy, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” produced in Stockholm, tells the playwright’s own family story

FASHION:

U.S. Men Gets Recapped: Slimmed-Down Sports Headgear Shows Up in Town

MUSIC:

A 23-year-old Canadian, Glenn Gould, looms as the Continent’s most astonishing young pianist

PARTY:

Turnout for a top Italian – President Giovanni Gronchi whirls through four days in Washington

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Speaking of Pictures: Aerial Artistry by the Acre

Letters to the Editors

Miscellany: An Antigravity Goat